San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-07


There we stood and sIrickcd with laughter
over the gems wIcl were ours, which had
been iOnnd for IL thousands of vars ago by
the patient divers in the great hole yonder,
and stored for us by Soon ms long lead
Oyeiseer, whose name, perclauce, was writ.
teIlsin the characters stamp d on the faded
wax that yet adhered to the lids of the chest.
Solomon never got them, nor David, nor Da
SiIyestra, nor anybody else. We had got
them; there before us were millions of
pounds worth of diamonds and thousands
of pounds worth of gold and ivory, only
waiting to be taken away.
Suddenly the lit passed off, and we
stopped laughing.
Open the other chests, white men,"
croaled GaguO. there are surely more
therein. Take your fill, white lords"
Thus adjurCd, we set to work to pull up
the stone lids on the other two, lirSt-not
without feeling Of Notwithstanding the
seals that fastened them.
IIoOrIy! they We're III !, too, fun to the
brim; at least the secrui one was; nc
wretched Da SIivestrd had been filling goat
skins out of that. As for the third chest, il
was only about fourth full but the stones
were all picGei ones; none less than twin.
ty caratS, and some Of them as large as
pigeOn-eggS. Some of the biggest ones
however, We could see by holding them W
to the light, were a | tile yellow, "Otl
colOrtd,' as they call it a Kimberlev.
What we dld not see, however, was the
look of fearful nal Violence that Old Cage u
favored us with rs she crept, crept like
snake, out of the Observation-Disclosures and
down the passage toward the massive door
of solid rock.
Hark! Cry upon cry comes ringing up the
yaulted path. 1t is FOulata's vOceI
"Oh, Bougwan! help! helpl the rock
fallsr'
Leave go, girl! Then"
"Help! help! she has stabbed mep'
BY now we are running down hepassage
and this is what the light from the lamp
falls on. The door of rock is slowly closing
down; it is not three feet from the floor.
Near it struggle FOulata and GIgOol. The
red blood of the former runs to her knee,
but still the brave girl holds the old witch,
who fights like a wildcat Al! she is free
FOuiata falls, and GagOOl throws herself on
the ground, to twist herself like a snake
through the crack of the closing stone. She
is under-ah, God! too late. to Ia,e! The
stone hlpS heI' ant 10 yeliN Ill agony.
Down, down II comes, all tle thirty IONS or
1t Slowly pressing Ilet Ola Dolly a!aiilst the
rock below shrek upon shrleK, such as
we never heard, then long SlcNenlng
crunch, ana the door was smut just as we,
rushing down tle passage huTied ourselves
against it,
1t was all done in four seconds.
Tnen we turn Il to FouIata IN, poor girl
WAS stabbed in the body, and cudId not, !
saw, live long.
"Abp Rnur,yin dirr' g,sn,I fine bean.
tiful creature .sShe rrnnt -Gagool.
did NOT see her / was f,int-and thr dnor
Lo.,a,, =, fan. thnr sha ra,ns, h,rly and wa.
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hmm the sIoyIy falling d,nr and r,rrht
hn,. an, h.,II ha, oni shn st,I,h - M, anI
Ma Rouswon y
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Ai''iiis "oi'
"Bougwan," she said after pause, sis
Macumazahn there? it grows SO dark can
not see."
"iicre ! am, FOulata.'
''Macumazhan, be my tongue for a mo-
ment, pray thee, for b u.w2u cannot I'M
derstand me, and b for, | 20 nto the dark
nrss-I would speak Il word"
SAY on, FOulata, will render it."